Google Calendar – Quick Add Entry with Details

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Some observations first:

When you are in Month View in Google Calendar and enter an event name in the pop-up, it will be created as a whole-day event.

OTOH, if you enter the event name like "19:15 Foo" or "14-16 bar", then Google Calendar will be smart enough to create the event with correct time (and remove the hours from the name itself). Cool – significantly removes the clicks needed to add something.

My question: What more can be done this way? Can I easily add an event with auto-repeat, for example? What else?

Best Answer

The Quick Add parser is pretty powerful.

Include a location by using "at" and a non-time value: Lunch noon tomorrow at Luigi's Pizza
Set recurring events: Conference call 10am every Tuesday for 11 weeks

Take a look here for more examples: Google Support: Create an Event

Code

function CalendarEvents() {
  // get contact 
  var contactByMail = ContactsApp
    .getContactsByEmailAddress('e-mail with address in Google Contacts');

  // get location
  var location = contactByMail[0].getAddresses()[0].getAddress();

  // set date
  var date = new Date("September 26, 2013");

  // fetch calendar
  var cal = CalendarApp.getCalendarById('e-mail of your calendar')
    .createAllDayEvent("test", date, {location:location});
}

Usage

This code will run just from within the script. There's no need to add it to a Google Spreadsheet. Go to script.google.com while you're logged in. Add the code and press the bug button to authenticate the script. Afterwards, press the play button to execute the script.

References

See the ContactsApp and the CalendarApp from Google Apps Script.

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